Intolerance Quotes · Page 13

Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

— George Bernard Shaw

Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

— Harold Stassen

We see... a future where no one-no one-is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

— Joe Biden

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

— Paul Tournier

Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is…

— Betty Smith

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance…

— Rosemarie Yusen

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, We live our lives based on dead men's tale. It is okay to…

— Abhijit Naskar

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards…

— Gregory Colbert

Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all…

— Conor Oberst

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we…

— Pierre Pettigrew

Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right…

— Leo Strauss

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of…

— Keith O'Brien

I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also…

— A. J. Jacobs

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the…

— Orhan Pamuk

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This…

— Robert Hughes

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will…

— Alfred M. Rehwinkel

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned…

— Julianna Baggott

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

— Princess Diana

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

— Terry Jones

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

— Eric Hoffer

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

— Wallace Stevens

“Faith can be unholy, science can be inhuman, none depends on the tool, all depends on the person.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

— John Shattuck

Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance." Percy: "Seriously?" Frank: "And I love ice cream…

— Rick Riordan

President Trump identifies the hatred and intolerance expressed by his radical opponents and names it for what it is.

— Charlie Kirk

If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.

— Dennis Prager

The only tolerance in the world, the only tolerance that earns the name, is that toward intolerance.

— Louis Paul

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

— Anonymous

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

— Adrian Rogers

“If humans believe in love the way they believe in rival faiths, there will be peace on earth.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Some say secularism is in their blood, some say liberty, all the while being the posterboys of persecution.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for…

— Richard Cowper

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

— Samantha Power

“I suffered with a desire to be alone, unfortunately coupled with an intolerance of others.”

— Jon Richardson

[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history…

— John M Swomley